Re: Nice fonts for emacs 22 GTK on Linux ?

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 06.02.2008 um 23:50 schrieb Bill O'Connor:

> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/emacs co  
> -r emacs-unicode-2 emacs


This version was latest known as GNU Emacs 23.0.60 – the "other" GNU  
Emacs, version 23.0.50, has been upgraded on the weekend to version  
23.0.60, so there is, hopefully, only one available via CVS.

You have three choices to run with font-backend active (you can also  
invoke GNU Emacs with  --disable-font-backend), with any (*one*) of  
these three X resources:

	Emacs.FontBackend:		x
	Emacs.FontBackend:		xft
	Emacs.FontBackend:		ftx

First one does nothing (for me, maybe more in X11R7.x), second one  
does font-aliasing via libXft, third one does this via libfreetype2  
and when compiled *without* libXft.

The fonts pop-up menu does not seem to change. It is set somewhere in  
ELisp, but it can be extended or substituted by own code. When using  
the font-backend you have to make the libfontconfig(2) system (fc- 
list, fc-cache) working. This means that you have to put all  
directory names with fonts into /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or such (check  
with man), and after this you should launch fc-cache, maybe with -v 
(erbose), to create the font hash files in the system.

It seems that the common X Logical Font Description format is  
accepted as input, either from the command line or from an X  
resource. From this some matching font is looked up.

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   Pete

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